ClosedCircuitCom 0 Posted April 5, 2005 is it possible to combine 2 ATA100 HD's to make it look like one, example: two 300 gig hd's will show up as 600 gig on C: drive. if so what would i need to do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 0 Posted April 5, 2005 Two types of options here. One is software spanning. The other is raid. Lets toss the software spanning out the window for now. So that leaves raid. For two drives you want Raid 0 or JBOD. To do it you need a motherboard or a raid card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VJD 0 Posted April 5, 2005 One thing to keep in mind about Raid 0 is that it is not fault-tolerant. If one drive fails you lose ALL your data. Make sure you back up regularly! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 0 Posted April 5, 2005 With two drives, you won't get much fault tolerance no matter how you do it, unless you use RAID 1. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ClosedCircuitCom 0 Posted April 5, 2005 any idea where to find a cheap RAID 0 card for a ata100 hd? also a model number would be helpful Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 0 Posted April 5, 2005 Promise makes a few at $50. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VJD 0 Posted April 5, 2005 I assume the reason you want to do this is because you already have the two drives? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ClosedCircuitCom 0 Posted April 5, 2005 yes i have the drives and also i cant find a 600 gig HD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wahloon 0 Posted April 6, 2005 I don't think there is a 600GB hard drive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VJD 0 Posted April 6, 2005 The biggest right now is a 500GB. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thomas 0 Posted April 6, 2005 Seagate has been tossing rumors out about an upcomming 600 GB drive and Hitachi is promising a terrabyte by 2007. I guess all that work they did on the mini drives for the IPods is paying off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cctv_down_under 0 Posted April 7, 2005 why do you need to combine the drives? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
